Let us be honest: trend diets never work. If you’re expecting to lose weight and keep it off, these five diets – life changes, rather – are the most idiot proof methods to shed the pounds and keep it off.

Cutting Complex Carbohydrates

Those complicated carbs are the most important diet thwarters. Food down on a bagel for breakfast, a burger for lunch, and a pizza for dinner with a beer or one or two glasses of wine and you’ve finished what they like to call it as a “carbo-load.” Cutting out your complex carbohydrates including bread, processed sugars, candy, grains (yes, even whole grains), and alcohol will help you lose weight quickly. This diet is trickier to stick to because complex carbs are a way of life. You can still eat fruit or order your meals “protein style” when you go out. It’s about the perseverance.

Jenny Craig

Jenny Craig is infamous for helping girls make the life-style changing decisions to lose some pounds. With a consultant and weigh-ins, Jenny Craig can truly aid you in staying on track. Jenny Craig’s secret is that you eat every hour or 2 to keep your metabolic rate high. You eat the food that they give you throughout the day. It’s a good way for people to lose some weight if you are too busy to discipline yourself.

Everything in Moderation

This lifestyle change truly requires a lot of self-discipline. If you do not need to count calories, and do not want to join a weight reducing plan or cut out a whole food group, just focus on everything in moderation. If you would like that piece of cake, eat 1/4 of it followed with a massive cup of water. If you would like that bready sandwich, remove one of the pieces of bread, kick off the mayonnaise, and eat it as an opened faced sandwich. Tiny life changes will make a change.

Weight Watchers

Weight Watchers is an “easy” way to lose weight because it turns calories and fiber into a simple points system. It also encourages you to drink lots of water and get at least 20 minutes of exercise daily. The hardest part about Weight Watches is you will need to document everything – which from another viewpoint creates accountability. Weekly conferences also make it easier because you can weigh yourself weekly, and have the support of a group.

Watching The Calories

The most efficient way to lose weight is to chop calories. There are 3,500 calories in a pound, so if you cut 3,500 calories per week you may lose a pound per week. Say you eat a 2,000 calorie diet routinely – if you cut 500 calories a day for 7 days a week, you will lose 3,500 calories per week. If you eat a 1,700 calorie diet routinely, you want to cut it down to 1,200 calories to lose the pounds. There are lots of mobile programs that will help you count calories. You will be stunned how many calories are in things we take for granted like oil and butter. You’ll learn what’s healthy, and what you want to moderate.

Amy Turman writes fitness articles for Experts123.